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Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

These are jumping spiders. Jumping spiders have always been cute! Some of my favourites:

Phidippus audax

Salticus scenicus

Maratus volans

[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love jumping spiders, they always look like they're processing how friendly I am before they finally crawl onto my hand

This one isn't a spider, but I found it looking for more jumping spider pictures:

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah! When I was a kid I played this game called Exile 3: Ruined World and it had a place called the cave of friendly spiders. You talked to them and they’d say things like “Hi! You’re cute!” It always stuck out to me how friendly they were.

Now I realize that jumping spiders literally are those friendly spiders from the game!

Cute salamander by the way! Where I live they’re extremely rare. Only seen a couple of them in my life.